{"id":15893,"date":"2019-10-22T11:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2019-11-24T04:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:43:26","slug":"static-page-sites-how-to-clean-url-structure-on-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/static-page-sites-how-to-clean-url-structure-on-nginx-15893","title":{"rendered":"Static Page Sites: How to clean URL structure on Nginx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Static Sites are all the rage these days because they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>super-fast (static pages which can also be cached in memory for further speed)<\/li><li>impossible to hack (how can you hack non-executable html pages?)<\/li><li>very low load on the server (minimal processing)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>However, you will often find broken links due to minor changes in the URL structure, which a CMS like WordPress will intelligently handle. To solve this, I propose a simple structure for all static pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><code>\/a\/<\/code> OR <code>\/a\/index.html<\/code> OR <code>\/a.html<\/code> all redirects to <code>\/a<\/code> which is served by <code>\/a.html<\/code><\/li><li><code>\/a\/b.html<\/code> OR <code>\/a\/b\/<\/code> or <code>\/a\/b\/index.html<\/code> all redirects to <code>\/a\/b<\/code> which is served by <code>\/a\/b.html<\/code><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This creates a unified view and without inconsistencies while resolving common error cases. The corresponding Nginx configuration snippet is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>server {\n        listen 80 default_server;\n        listen &#91;::]:80 default_server;\n\n        rewrite ^\/index\/?$ \/ permanent;\n        rewrite ^\/$ \/index.html break;\n        rewrite ^(.+)\/+$ $1 permanent;\n        rewrite ^(.+)\\.html $1 permanent;\n        rewrite ^(.+)\/index(\\.html)?$ $1 permanent;\n\n        root \/var\/www\/html;\n        index index.html index.htm;\n        server_name _;\n        location \/ {\n                try_files $uri $uri.html $uri\/ =404;\n        }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I have tested it successfully on <a href=\"https:\/\/taragana.com\/\">Taragana Corporate site<\/a>.<\/li><li>Can you simplify it?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that this is not the complete code but relevant snippet to get you started. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Static Sites are all the rage these days because they are: super-fast (static pages which can also be cached in memory for further speed) impossible to hack (how can you hack non-executable html pages?) very low load on the server (minimal processing) However, you will often find broken links due to minor changes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15897,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}